Answers to Workbook unit Making a stand Exercise (page 5)
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Part B • Circle the prepositional phrases • Underline the present perfect tense • Highlight the future continuous tense Scientists across the world, from Amsterdam to Adelaide, have been hard at work developing new sources of protein to feed the world’s growing human population. People might see these forms of food as unnatural and feel strange about eating them at first. The question is, will people be able to overcome the ‘yuck’ factor, and try these alternatives to meat? We eat, on average, 80 kg of meat per person per year, in Europe, America and Australia. In Africa and parts of Asia, people eat much less meat – around 25 kg per person per year. But diets are changing and the demand for meat is growing. There is a link between money and meat too – the wealthier people become, the more meat they tend to consume. One very interesting solution to this demand for more meat has been the development of ‘cultured’ meat. Cultured meat is grown in a laboratory. Cells are taken from the types of animals we use for meat, and then the cells are grown in a laboratory to establish a cell culture. The culture is then put into a bioreactor, where it grows into meat cell mush. Nutrients and vitamins are added to the mush, and it is transformed into muscle cells, and then mechanically assembled into a burger patty, or another recognisable type of ‘meat shape’. For some people, this is a simply marvellous invention. You can eat ‘meat’ without harming an animal, and you don’t have to raise animals, feed them, or deal with their waste products etc. For others, it is a disgusting thought. They think there’s something weird, unnatural and unappetising about the idea of eating a substance grown in a petri dish from an animal cell. There are costs involved – the laboratory equipment has to be kept very sterile and clean. This is because the cells growing in the culture do not have an immune system, like an animal has, so they can be infected by bacteria. However, scientists argue that this ‘clean’ meat is the protein of the future, and hope to be able to bring it to your table by 2025. What do you think? Will we be eating cultured burgers soon? Is ‘clean’ meat a sustainable way to get protein to many people? Is it meat at all? Cambridge Checkpoint Lower Secondary World English Teacher’s Guide 9 © Monica Menon, Richa Ahuja and Belinda Danker 13 Download 303.8 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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